Monday, March 19, 2007

Reid: Republicans Endorse The President's Iraq Policies

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) released this statement late last week after Republicans voted against his resolution to begin drawing down U.S. forces in Iraq, in an effort to bring the ill-advised war to an end:

"Today's vote demonstrated the difference between Democrats and Republicans in the United States Senate. Democrats believe that our troops should not be policing a civil war, that Iraq must take responsibility for its own future, and that our troops should begin to come home.

"Senate Republicans support President Bush's plan to commit more men and women to policing an open-ended civil war. For months, Democrats have pushed for a vote on the most important issue facing this country.

"Today was one step. We will not stop until President Bush and Senate Republicans listen to the American people and change course in Iraq."

Reid needs to bring this vote to the Senate floor again and again and again -- and make all the Republicans who need to run for reelection in 2008 keep going on the record as wanting to continue our disastrous presence in Iraq.

Political writer Bob Geiger is the award-winning author of the Yellow Dog Blog and BobGeiger.com and specializes in coverage of the U.S. Senate. He won the 2005 Weblog Awards prize for Best New Blog and was a finalist in the Koufax Awards in 2005 for his column "I Know This Little Boy in New Orleans."

He is the coauthor of The Real McCain and his work has appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the New York Journal News. A contributing writer to The Huffington Post and Alternet, Bob also makes appearances to comment on Senate activity on many popular radio programs.